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VG247.comTue, 03 Mar 2015 19:59:57 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure to be published by Atlus worldwide in early 2014http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/28/tesla-effect-a-tex-murphy-adventure-to-be-published-by-atlus-worldwide-in-early-2014/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/28/tesla-effect-a-tex-murphy-adventure-to-be-published-by-atlus-worldwide-in-early-2014/#commentsWed, 28 Aug 2013 15:09:08 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=402765Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure, the sixth installment in the legendary PC adventure game series, will be published by Atlus, Big Finish Games has announced.

The firm said the partnership will allow the developer to create a more “fully developed” vision for Tex Murphy.

The original development goal was $450,000 and 6,963 backers tossed $598,104 in all at it.

“The Tex Murphy franchise is definitely much beloved around the Atlus office; a lot of us were playing Tex games before we started our careers in the games industry,” said Bill Alexander, vice president of production and business development.

“Atlus has a great penchant for stepping in to help developers bring their incredible games to market, and we are eager to breathe new life into this classic franchise. We hope that it will bring back fond memories for Tex Murphy fans as well as introduce a new generation of gamers to his one-of-a-kind humor.”

Tesla Effect will release on Steam and other PC platforms worldwide in early 2014 and it will also be Mac compatible.

The single-player adventure game will feature full-motion video.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/28/tesla-effect-a-tex-murphy-adventure-to-be-published-by-atlus-worldwide-in-early-2014/feed/1Tesla Effect – new trailer shows off Kickstarted Tex Murphy gamehttp://www.vg247.com/2013/07/11/tesla-effect-new-trailer-shows-off-kickstarted-tex-murphy-game/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/07/11/tesla-effect-new-trailer-shows-off-kickstarted-tex-murphy-game/#commentsThu, 11 Jul 2013 05:06:13 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=387165It’ve been over a year since we last checked in with Project Fedora, the crowdfunded effort to resurrect beloved adventure franchise Tex Murphy. This trailer shows the newly-titled Tesla Effect coming along nicely.

As you’ll see from the trailer, the game is a mix of live action performance and animation; Murphy was played by creator Chris Jones, although I’m not sure if the developer has reprised his role, since the series has been on hiatus for 15 years. The series is set in a dystopian future San Francisco.

There’s still no release date beyond “coming soon” for Tesla Effect, although it was originally scheduled for a December 2012 launch. Of course, it did raise almost $150,000 more than Big Finish Games asked for, so the scope of the project probably expanded a little.

At time of writing, the amount pledged sits at $506,450, with 5,698 project backers.

In surpassing $495,000, the project has reached its first stretch goal, which promised an additional story including puzzles, gameplay, locations and characters.

With five days left until the campaign comes to close, the project still has two further stretch goals to potentially exceed. At $540,000, the game will be ported to additional platforms, more recognisable actors will be feature, and text translations will be created for French, Italian, German and Spanish. Another expansion of the story is promised if the project exceeds $585,000, along with an in-game golf game, and Live Orchestra for the game’s music.

Chris Jones, the series’ original creator, produced the following video to thank backers for their support.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/06/11/tex-murphy-%e2%80%9cproject-fedora%e2%80%9d-kickstarter-a-success-additional-story-secured/feed/3Tex Murphy “Project Fedora” Kickstarter now livehttp://www.vg247.com/2012/05/16/tex-murphy-project-fedora-kickstarter-now-live/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/16/tex-murphy-project-fedora-kickstarter-now-live/#commentsWed, 16 May 2012 01:55:59 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=259099The promised Tex Murphy Kickstarter is now live. Codenamed Project Fedora, the new game has already attracted over 1,000 backers and was up to $124,000 at time of writing, with 31 days remaining to hit $400,000. The noir adventure series has a fanatical cult following, so we can probably expect to see this one make its goal, especially as original creator Chris Jones and veteran Tex Murphy writer Aaron Conners are spearheading the effort.
]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/16/tex-murphy-project-fedora-kickstarter-now-live/feed/2Big Finish Games to launch Kickstarter for Tex Murphy May 15http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/21/big-finnish-games-to-launch-kickstarter-for-tex-murphy-may-15/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/21/big-finnish-games-to-launch-kickstarter-for-tex-murphy-may-15/#commentsWed, 21 Mar 2012 15:08:08 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=245311Big Finish Games wants to bring Tex Murphy back to the forefront of adventure games, and it needs your help via a Kickstarter round, which goes live on May 15.

Founded by Chris Jones and Aaron Conners in 2007, Big Finish is looking to create the next entry in the series, which stars a normal, human PI named Tex Murphy surrounded by others with genetic defects. He runs his detective business out of a hotel in Old San Francisco where the mutants as well as the down-and-out tend to settle.

The last game om the series was in 1998 through the duo’s Access Software, which was eventually acquired by Microsoft and sold to Take-Two which dismantled it.

In 2009, Conners and Jones re-acquired the rights to past and future Tex games and now, you can help with the funding of a new entry.